Speaker Group: Business Leader

Kilonzo Mbwele joined Enabling Qapital in 2020 and has worked with the founding Partners to build the impact investment activities across Africa and the Middle East. He is a seasoned investment professional with over ten years in the region across banking, microfinance, fintech, education, energy, and agriculture. Kilonzo Mbwele previously worked at BlueOrchard Finance in… Read more »

Philip Lucky is the Head of Investment Marketing Department at the Rwanda Development Board (RDB), a Government institution in charge of accelerating economic growth and development of the country, where he is tasked with aligning RDB’s strategic priorities with the National Vision and driving interventions to attract more investments in the country. Prior to that,… Read more »

Sarah Whitten is USTDA’s Regional Financing and Implementation Manager for the Sub-Saharan Africa based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Prior to USTDA, she was with Standard Chartered Bank managing a portfolio of South African headquartered multinationals and global corporate regional offices. Prior to this, she was with the Debt Capital Markets team based in New York,… Read more »

Miranda Abraham is Co-Head of Loan Syndications at Rand Merchant Bank. She has worked across loan and debt capital markets for over 20 years. She spent the first half of her career covering a wide range of syndications across EMEA, and then in 2010 began to focus exclusively on financing for Developing Markets. Miranda Abraham… Read more »

Laurence Berman is a co-founder of Biolevel. He drives all commercial expansion efforts in Europe and Africa and leads work around raising capital for the company. He started is career in New York at Morgan Stanley, later working in London and Frankfurt as a senior executive for a real estate private equity fund. His shift… Read more »

Bejoy Nettikadan is the founder and Chief Executive of NetOne. A chartered accountant turned entrepreneur, Bejoy Nettikadan is passionate about creating impact through technology.Bejoy Nettikadan founded NetOne in 2007, at the age of 23 and has led the team to deliver impact, innovation and growth over the past 15 years of the Group’s existence. He… Read more »

Mike Mompi is Managing Partner of Enza Capital, a venture fund investing in early-stage African technology companies solving large and meaningful problems. He sits on the Boards of multiple African technology companies including SeamlessHR, Craydel, and Tuteria.com. Enza Capital is based out of Nairobi Kenya, has made 33 investments into 23 portfolio companies through its… Read more »

Ms. Wairimu Karanja is the Chief Legal Officer and Partner at Persistent and based in Nairobi. She is an international lawyer qualified in Kenya, with 12 years of legal experience. Wairimu Karanja has advised private sector and development organisations on various projects in Africa relating to renewable energy and climate change policy; power project development… Read more »

At FSD Africa, Dr Evans Osano leads capital markets development initiatives across Africa. These include green bond markets and market infrastructure development. He also sits on the board and investment committee of the African Local Currency Bond Fund (ALCBF) and chairs the donor committee of Frontclear’s Technical Assistance Facility. Dr Evans Osano has a keen… Read more »

Enrique Tizon is a seasoned Syndications Officer currently covering IFC syndicated lending across sectors, exclusively, in SSA. During his 12-year tenure at IFC he has covered IFC syndicated transactions in Asia based in Hong Kong, Latam based in Washington DC and more recently the larger EMEA region while based in London.